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Bayer's $62 billion bid for Monsanto
This week the German pharmaceutical and chemical company Bayer made a $62 billion bid to buy Monsanto, the biotech business headquartered in Missouri. If the deal goes through, it would create the largest seed and pesticide business in the world.
By Evan Kleiman • • 1 min readThis week the German pharmaceutical and chemical company Bayer made a $62 billion bid to buy Monsanto, the biotech business headquartered in Missouri. If the deal goes through, it would create the largest seed and pesticide business in the world. To find out what this merger could mean for farmers and consumers, we called Luke Runyon in Fort Collins, Colorado. He's a reporter for Harvest Public Media and KUNC.
Music: ”Busta Rhymes - Call the Ambulance" (instrumental) produced by The Neptunes and Rick Ross featuring Future - No Games" (instrumental) produced by The J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League
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- 26:31A tour de force chop at Salt's Cure
- 34:06Make that cold one a beer cocktail
- 42:37Let them eat cake
- 51:07Peddling candy in South LA with Grace of the Sea
The full episode
1 of 7Consolidation in biotech, aeroir, smoked beets, beer cocktails- 0:17Bayer's $62 billion bid for MonsantoYou’re reading this
- 10:24The air we … eat?
- 18:34You can't stop the beet
- 26:31A tour de force chop at Salt's Cure
- 34:06Make that cold one a beer cocktail
- 42:37Let them eat cake
- 51:07Peddling candy in South LA with Grace of the Sea